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Hi Santy Garcia,

Thank you for sharing your find with us!

Yesterday I've downloaded USBTex from http://www.exomatik.net/LaTeX/USBTeXEnglish,
and my first impressions are very good. Comparing USBTex with the one I've introduced sometime ago
I see the following:
+ There are no functional differences ...

Tomek,

Are still thinking portable when you suggest using MiKTeX 2.7?

Cheers, drdousa

Herr Kaleun,

It is quite unclear to me what you've attempted to do, but I understand that you are new to LaTeX. If so, my advise would be to start learning LaTeX from a common installation rather than using this slightly more involved portable approach.

It is also unclear to me why you would need ...

Tomek,

Thanks for the tip on WinShell settings; I will try it out.
It's the 1 missing piece in my LaTeX set-up (which I don't notice
that much, since I mostly use one and the same laptop).

K.r.: dousa

I've been using this config for months now, and found no reason to change it.
K.r: dousa

Yes, it's fun! I have been working with it for the rest of the week and love it.

Winshell is about as complete as e.g. TeXnicCenter so surely worthwhile to give it a try.
N.B. If you use the USB-stick on another computer, you may have to reset WinShell's programcalls. Unfortunately this part of the ...

Thanks again, Darckhart, the route via Tex Live 2007 works! I did the following (without having administrator rights):
1. Download the .iso file
2. Extract the .iso file using WinRar to a 1GB USB stick
3. Use tlpmgui from the setuptl directory to install Tex Live onto the USB stick. (I choose ...

Thanks, Darckhart!

The approach I have in mind is the first you've tried, but then with the live texmf and latex-editor, e.g. WinShell, running from a USB stick.

Which live DVD with texmf do you use? I think if I have one, the rest should be a piece of cake.

Hope to hear from you again!

Just installing MikTEX (2.6) on a USB-stick does not work. The reason is that some personal preferences are stored under Documents and Settings/<user(s)>/Application Data. MikTEX Options (mo.tex) points to the relevant paths, but does not allow them to be changed. Moving the preference-settings to ...

Hi All,

For several reasons I would like to be able to work on my LaTeX-docs from a USB-stick or Portable-HD, and this without having to install a LaTeX-editor on Windows first. (There are quite a few PCs that I may use, but for which I'm not an admin.)

Does anybody know whether there is a LaTeX ...